Sorry attempt to rehabilitate 'Ketuanan Melayu'

comments     Kua Kia Soong     Published     Updated

COMMENT No matter how hard we try, we will not find the term 'Ketuanan Melayu' in the 1957 Federal Constitution. Nor will we find it in the post-May 13 amendments to the constitution.

The fact remains that the term 'Malay dominance' came into prominence after the former MP for Kok Lanas, Abdullah Ahmad, made his infamous assertions at the Institute of International Affairs in Singapore on Aug 30, 1986.

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